While Trump Practices Benign Neglect, Mulvaney Hammers Cabinet

Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney has quietly build up an infrastructure of influence from his post in the White House, hammering Cabinet Secretaries weekly on their plans to strip back regulation from a whole host of areas.


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Mulvaney is apparently the nastiest of the nasties in the WH. He is so evil, even Mitch does not like to have to deal with him. I predict Mulvaney will be in the WH as long as Trump is there, they are a match made in Hades.

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Way to go, Mick. Leave Trump to his atavistic impulses, never fall into that trap of trying to restrain him for the good of the nation and world, and just quietly go about your program of making everyone in that town hate you even more. That’s some first-rate chief-‘o-staffin’, there, pal.

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Choosing between Mulvaney and Mnuchin is like choosing a favorite slime mold.

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“Neither” is a kind of choice, isn’t it?

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Wikipedia is an awesome thing … I need to contribute again.

I start there when looking at scumbag Republicans. This feral animal never had a real job in his life. From family real estate company to SC State Legislature (a self serving move if I ever saw one) to DC. Along the way he was also a grifter, guess that goes with the SC State Legislator and Real Estate Developer.

PS: People from SC are called ‘sand lappers’, not my moniker but I endorse it.

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Hey! Slime molds deserve more respect than that!

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The nastiest of the nasties would be Miller. But Mulveney has been far more effective in his evil and in doing the kind of evil that slips under the radar of an MSM transfixed by Miller’s more overtly, gleefully evil evil.

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It’s quite an achievement to be so foul that people prefer Mnuchin to being around you. Kudos, Mick. Not everyone could do it and not take a knife to the portrait the devil makes you keep in the attic.

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Seems like all these once fiscal conservatives now don’t care about how much money they need to spend to defend Mick’s practices in court.

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I agree with that assessment. Who was worse, Eichmann or Himmler?

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I’ve lost my faith in nihilism.

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“Mick” should stick to what he knows, donuts.

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Hey snowflake, you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs of endangered species.

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I’d think most Americans would like to hold their national government to standards of health, education and general wellbeing higher than Mulvaney’s South Carolina which is in the 40’s by most measures.

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More like between Heydrich and Bormann if we’re going there.

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This Mulvaney’s own agenda, even more than it’s Trump’s.

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Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), admit that they’d rather deal with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.

Burn.

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I’ve often wondered that Mick was a member of the “star chamber” making the tactical decisions for this administration. tRump isn’t that smart to have come up with the idea of using Acting-Position vs Confirmed to run agencies or being CoS. tRump wasn’t & still isn’t knowledgeable about any government task or have the extensive connections to place all the “right” people to dismantle whatever that agency or subset of agency is tasked to do. Or to deregulate. Or to steer the agency to profit making for a few well connected oligarchs.
Mick + McConnell + Koch or similar acolytes + Goldman-Sachs + military-industrial complex guys = Primary Star Chamber ??

Steve Miller + tRump’s innate racism = Immigration Star Chamber ??

Others, probably, as tRump as vile as he is, could not conceive of the scope of all the shit that’s rained down on us for these 30 months much less know how to implement the shit storms. And it’s not Putin. This is homegrown.

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Yes.

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